Posts by Sacha
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Twitter folk say there was a second explosion this afternoon, no survivors expected, families left briefing session distraught. Another big challenge for media.
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For informed rage, download the report and previous submissions from the WWG's lair.
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You can download the report and previous submissions at the WWG's lair. I imagine someone may start a new thread here for the topic.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to Lilith __,
These are the people still spouting:
“If changes were not made, the 356,000 working-age adults on a benefit would eventually cost the country $50 billion.”Where 'people' means supposedly-trained journalists. What's going to stop these pricks passing on the lies?
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Jane Clifton offers a sunny assessment of coverage.
Journalists, especially television journalists with their camera crews and women's magazine-fodder front people, need to get as close to the action as possible.
They need to ask questions, even dumb, obvious ones. They need to be "all over the story".
It can look like Madame Defarge at the gallows with her knitting, waiting for the bodies.
But in essence, it's nothing of the kind.
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While there are big questions to answer, such as those about mine safety, regulation, emergency preparedness and rapidity of response, there is a decent sense of restraint, even in the hot-headed TV newsrooms, about hammering these issues now. There will be plenty of time for inquiries, accusations and recriminations later. Now, the media's priorities are the same as any decent citizen's: to wait and hope for a good outcome, even while bracing for a tragic one.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Oh, only one was *identified* as a motoring journo - I guess I'm meant to know that Thompson is one too.
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Whittall seems realistic about prospects in this brief clip which also features some of what I imagine is the classic Aussie journo-ing in question.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Only one was a motoring journo. But bicycle advertising remains minimal..
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Unless the speculation can improve current efforts, then it can wait, surely? Although dodging responsibility does seem more likely once the media glare dies down, and some good bigger questions have been raised already, right now they just seem unhelpful to anyone but those whose jobs involve audience ratings. When did dignity stop being a news value?
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Te Wellington Regional Cycleways blog is unimpressed by Mr Thompson's pearls.
I myself would have thought that slowing cars down, and getting rid of drunk drivers, and making it illegal to pass a cyclist within 1.5 metres would be a better way to go about it. Really registration? Where has that old pearler ever worked? It is the Godwin’s law of road transport. What the hell is the Herald doing hiring a monkey like Eric? No wonder it’s not worth buying newspapers anymore.